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Poets of the BALL

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Gilamasan @gilamasan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The bill has been opened to feedback. Rather than dooming about the proposal, you can tell them exactly how you feel about the act here. ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... With how much of an uphill battle Chat Control is having, you should never assume it's worthless to fight these draconian bills.
ec.europa.eu
European Commission - Have your say
European Commission - Have your say
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Ash @santanaelchan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
look man all i gotta say regarding the Malfoid trend is that you cultivate your audience. i saw on Twitter the original artist behind the trend talkin about how he made this piece "for the boys" and was getting annoyed by folks asking them to make her trans or a lesbian and everyone was like "BASED"
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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cough drop @coughdrop.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
1) This isn't about generating games or assets with AI, it's just about using automation tools for some processes like bug testing which isn't inherently bad 2) IGN should be embarrassed for this headline. It doesn't say "AI generation" as in generative AI, it's 世代, "generation" as in "time period"
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Fur Affinity 🏳️‍⚧️ @furaffinity.net · 02/10/2026
GONDOR CALLS FOR AID FA Announcement: Support Fur Affinity’s Community Funding www.furaffinity.net/journal/1143... gofund.me/8126f11cb
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Gondor Flame
ALT: Gondor Flame
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Lamblimped Cryo (35 days) @cryolithius.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FA regardless of your personal feelings, is the core of the fandom and losing it would mean YEARS AND YEARS of art, messages, pages, and memorials for people that have passed, would be gone. We CANNOT allow ourselves to rely simply on sites like bsky, twitter, insta, etc. etc. to be our defaults.
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kritty krat nyahah >w< @ BLFC @spookybiscuits.com · 29/09/2026
reminder that if our rights depend on who is in office, we don't actually have rights. there is no victory until our safety is unassailable.
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💀 Shalloween 💀 @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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Doc Vivi Leandra【 VTC 】- Real-Life Scientist VTuber 🧬🖥️ @docvivileandra.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never been a more appropriate time for this tweet
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day
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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's so fucking bleak that there's so many more posts here about scene drama at a lesbian bar than there is the US government's border Gestapo shooting a guy in the back, kidnapping him, throwing him in a camp, denying him proper medical care, and then torturing him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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Leon “Lee” Grayhare @grayharetherabbit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To “apolitical furries”: You may not do ‘pawlitics’ but ‘pawlitics’ will absolutely do the fuck out of you To conservative/Republican furries who “aren’t like those other furries”: Yeah cool story bro but your political comrades only see another degenerate pervert, so maybe plan accordingly
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I don’t want to be too alarmist here but you’re all aware that the Nazis were hyperbolic idiots right? Like you have picked up on the fact that this is actually a core part of fascism?
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I know “haha funny furries” but that’s a sitting US Senator standing next to a podium labeled “Transgenderism Is A Mental Disease” so I’m not really sure all these cis people should be crackin’ up here
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a fucking bloodbath. 343/halo studios effectively shuttered, arkane and ninja theory to be shuttered most likely, obsidian and rare are being merged into other studios which likely means huge layoffs, playground and turn 10 to merge which likely means the same.
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Marc Swint [ th3Engineer ] @marcswint.com · 21/09/2026
Your regular reminder that Gavin Newsom is raw political ambition wearing a rotting skin suit.
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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My friend made a cool game on a game jam and within a month a slopclone of it is on Steam. This is happening every day for indie devs and I hate it.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.
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Evil Con Fettie @spacebeer.net · 21/09/2026
Hey if ur just gonna reinvent cable can u also reinvent the animation industry having Job Opportunities too
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Nora | CEO of Mega Evolution 👾 @norainthefuture.tv · 19/09/2026
if you’re watching him anyway or want to help me figure out how to help palestine please click here, repost & don’t give logan paul a view. twitch.tv/norainthefuture
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Nora | CEO of Mega Evolution 👾 @norainthefuture.tv · 19/09/2026
please share this & make sure it’s the only attention logan paul & modretro get tomorrow.
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 12/09/2025
this advertisement has become funnier with every single management decision
bluesky no incels advertisement on a street sign
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised"
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🔞HareMadness🔞 "Tickle Tum" @haremadness.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is what's currently going on. It's a lot on my plate right now, and I've been having panic attacks almost everyday.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran’s band just quit the Ed Sheeran tour.
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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wintertorta🍰 @wintertorta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
a reminder 🪄 #illustration
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Venus 𓃹 @venusposting.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
at the end of a rainbow is a pot of gold ❌ bunny ✅✅✅
a rabbit sitting on a bed with a rainbow painted on the wall behind them
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Ervo @ervo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Fun fact: this is not a festival, not even a 3rd party one, this is a curator and they have tried to make the page look as much like a festival as possible They have to lie, they're always lying, if they don't lie nobody buys their shit If AI is so good, if it's the inevitable future, why lie?
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
a fascinating game archeology piece in which someone maps and attempts to understand Thissala, a recently unearthed adventure game from 1979.
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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 10/09/2026
I’m a Texan trans kid who almost died because of Ken Paxton. The world should know what he’s done. This was very difficult for me to write, but given what's at stake, I cannot bear to stay silent about what I went through at Paxton's hands. He must not be rewarded for what he's done to trans kids.
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I’m a Texan Trans Kid Who Almost Died Because of Ken Paxton. The World Should Know What He’s Done.
Regardless of Talarico’s recent statements on trans people, Paxton cannot be rewarded for the extreme suffering he’s inflicted on me and tens of thousands of Texan trans kids.
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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Dimension 20 @dimension20.dropout.tv · 07/09/2026
every job deserves comfort, dignity and safety! 🫡
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Kimberly 🐘 @elephanttail.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
guys. this is sourced from a Mega64 tweet from last night
A screenshot of Mega64 on Twitter: "We are hearing INSANE leaks that Sony may announce something huge tomorrow. Stay tuned around 10AM PT"
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i'm alice @heyimheroic.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
the entire reason the gaming industry is so dogshit right now is the domino effect from "putting aside" lootboxes. "putting aside" any controversy only serves to benefit from the people causing it, this isn't new and we shouldn't "let it slide sometimes"
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The progression of certain thinkers from denying the validity of trans people to denying the validity of disabilities is a nice illustration of the way in which transphobic habits of mind can quickly evolve into a kind of acquired sociopathy.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/09/2026
The reason we spend so much money being awful to unhoused people is the system needs a visible reminder of what landlords and bosses are threatening you with.
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Rotating Handles @davidhdaw.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The thing about John Cena is that much like Dave Bautista who is trapped in that body but was born to play Hamlet, John Cena is one of the most gifted comic actors of his generation but looks like he just ate Jack Reacher.
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Grace Reed @deergrace.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m not sure who said it first, but I’ve been thinking about this line all week
A block print of a silhouetted cliff with the text WHAT IF THE BOULDER LOVED SISYPHUS?
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The painful thing is how those of us in the disability community predicted this outcome - both that ignoring COVID and taking no measures to restrict it's spread would lead to a massive increase in disability, and that those disabled would be blamed for their own conditions.
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.
Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”
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Mae Evil-yn @noxyba.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Peter Sagal blocking every trans person voicing even mild pushback to his sterling, tone-deaf endorsement of the Harry Potter books is a perfect object lesson in how every mewling centrist loser you know would sooner cut every trans person out of their life before changing anything they do at all
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
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Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.
From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...
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QTori 🍣 @qtori.art · 04/09/2026
I will add pressure to this by saying that any company that claims to not hold onto your personal data after verifying you? They're lying. Ive been nitro free since the first time they tried this, voice how you feel with your wallet people. Make them really feel that squeeze.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just 2 years ago you would only get an article like this from an outlet like Pink News. It gives me hope when you start to see mainstream outlets like The Verge and Variety openly writing about Harry Potter only in the context of it funding JK Rowling's bigotry.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I would 100% support a law that says if any digital platform removes your access to media you paid for then they are required to refund you the entirety of the original purchase price. That would solve this whole thing in a hurry.
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Crash @crashfan03.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Sarah 💜 @vyletbunni.com · 01/09/2026
so then it's not stealing when people pirate digital playstation games, correct?
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is inhumane and unacceptable. And how were these workers thanked for enduring these conditions? Many were laid off. This is why we're organizing. A better industry is both possible and must come to pass if our artform and dignity are to survive.
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